Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Thomas Campbell

But can the noble mind for ever brood, the willing victim of a weary mood, o heartless cares that squander life away, and cloud young Genius bright'ning into day?

Death | Good | Hope |

Thomas Brooks

Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all.

Death | Warning | Will |

Thomas Browne, fully Sir Thomas Browne

Lead thine own captivity captive, and be Cæsar within thyself.

Death | Life | Life | Valor | Valor |

Thomas Carlyle

It seems to me a great truth that human things cannot stand on selfishness, mechanical utilities, economies and law courts; that if there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable, and doomed to ruin.

Bible | Death | Grace | Lesson | Life | Life | Man | Wonder | Bible | Blessed | Old |

Thomas Dekker

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

Death |

Thomas Carlyle

What greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

Death | Little | Soul | Parting |

Thomas Chalmers

We do not steady a ship by fixing the anchor on aught that is within the vessel. The anchorage must be without. And so of the soul, when resting, not on what it sees in itself, but on what it sees in the character of God, the certainty of His truth, the impossibility of His falsehood.

Character | Death | Grave |

Thomas Carlyle

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Death | Distress | Heart | Injustice | Injustice |

Thomas Hardy

I was thinking of stories I've read when I listened to the music. Then I thought about the music and painting and chose the colors, a lot of red and yellow and green.

Death |

Thomas Hobbes

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

Day | Death | Nothing | Spirit | Old |

Thomas Hobbes

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Death | Man | Men | Right |

Thomas Jefferson

God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own.

Death | Liberty | Pardon | People | Public | Quiet | Right | Spirit | Time | Will | Wrong |

Thomas Jefferson

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

Circumstances | Death | Question | Reputation | Society | Time | Society |

Thomas Jefferson

If a monarchist be in office anywhere, and it be known to the President,

Death | Office |

Thomas Jefferson

The dead should not rule the living.

Death | Ennui | Life | Life | Object | Present |

Thomas Jefferson

The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment between them.

Character | Death | Good | Law | Mercy | Murder | Object | Power | Public | Security | Time | Treason | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Murder |

Thomas Jefferson

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Death | Solitude | Friends |

Thomas Jefferson

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Death | Public |

Thomas Jefferson

You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.

Anarchy | Death | God | History | People | Public | Quiet | Rebellion | Will | Wrong | God |

Thomas Mann, fully Paul Thomas Mann

I, for one, have never in my life come across a perfectly healthy human being.

Death | Love | Nothing | Will |